Wednesday, June 30, 2010

White peacock

Hello ladies,

Today I bring you the famed Nubar Pasadena Purple accented with a white peacock. I found Pasadena Purple matches the ring of color outside the eye of a peacock feather. I have seen a white peacock wandering about a sculpture garden. They are incomparably beautiful.

I once had an amusing encounter with one of the resident peacocks at the sculpture grounds. As I roamed by on the lawn, he stood up from resting and raised his tail feathers. I was wearing a long and full circle skirt in blue and purple. I lifted the hems and fanned it out at the sides. The peacock and I stood facing, with opposite semi-circles of color. My skirt was forming a bell shape and his feathers were a perfect arch. We stared at each other for a long time. He seemed to admire my display.

I am rather besotted with the peacock image from Bundle Monster plate BM15. I used white Konad special polish for the stamping. Three nail pens from the Bejeweled Collection were chosen to color the feathers: Royal Amethyst, Emeralds and Sapphires. I then positioned three coordinating rhinestones per nail and placed them in varying formations within the tail feathers.




Below: An interesting perspective. Flower, birdhouse, skyscraper.
It gets more interesting because...
of the giant hibiscus!






The bees love these flowers as much as I do.



I painted three coats of Pasadena Purple for full opacity. Those with shorter nails will likely be happy with two coats. The application was great. The pearl finish is a little less noticeable with Pasadena Purple because of the the deep amethyst jewel tone. It could be mistaken for a shimmer in different lights.

What do you ladies think? Will you be adding this much talked about purple to your collection?

Pasadena Purple and the Bejeweled Nail Art Pen Collection were sent to me for review. Pasadena Purple can be found in the California Dreamin' Collection. These products are available at bynubar.com.

There is one more day left to enter for a chance to win all six polishes in the Nubar California Dreamin' Collection, 2010 flakie glitter topcoat and a summer fun gift pack. Stop by the contest post before the end of the day July 1st. The giveaway ends in the last available time zone on the planet. For comparison, that's roughly 8 a.m. EST June 2nd. Best of luck!

Happy painting, ladies!


55 comments:

  1. Wow, I love the colors and the jewels just add such a pretty touch! <33

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  2. This is just mind-blowing! You rock, girl! =)

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  3. Stunningly beautiful as always love!

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  4. This is absolutely stunning!! I, too, love the peacock image and the colors are just so beautiful. Pasadena Purple is by far my favorite color in this collection. :)

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  5. I LOVE that design on your nails!..I love the peacock image, but the way you accented it with the rhinestones and with that purple nail color..it looks just gorgeous! =)

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  6. Holy smokes! That is ginormous!
    The rhinestones look so lovely with the peacock.

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  7. I just noticed your giveaway was to end on June 1st. Hehe. :o) JK

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  8. WOW!! That is absolutely gorgeous. I love what you did with the accent colors and rhinestones. That's just... wow!

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  9. wow!! thats very stunning!!! love it so much

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  10. Eva: Thanks so much! I have been wanting to experiment with the peacock design since I first received my Bundle Monster plates. Once I had the Bejeweled Nail Art Pen Collection, I knew what I had to do. ;)

    Trincess: Thank you! I wanted to give one of my favorite animals a tribute. I adore peacocks. :)

    Evil Angel: Thanks! I could say the same thing to you every day. xoxo!

    cupcakequeen22: Thanks so much! You can't go wrong with a peacock and a good purple. <3

    caramelcutie0215: Thank you! I had all the colors lined up. I was so excited to work with the peacock design. :)

    Laura: I haven't seen a hibiscus flower that large in quite some time. It was fascinating to stumble upon.

    Thanks so much! We certainly share a love of rhinestones. <3

    I'm so glad you noticed. Ah, the power of editing!

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  11. Laynie: Thank you for your sweet comment! I'm so glad you like how the look came together. <3

    Thriszha: Thank you, sweetie! xoxo!

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  12. Who doesn't love peacocks?? This is such a sweet tribute to the beautiful bird who struts his stuff in such a big way. Just gorgeous. I love the backgrounds of flowers and plants you always choose for your manicures. I always spend a lot of time just looking at all the pretty in each picture.

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  13. That is so so gorgeous, this one is my new fave! I love peacocks and the colors are stunning. That flower is massive!

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  14. sooooooo pretty! the bestest mani you've ever done! well, that i can think of right now haha :D and holy crap that first flower is HUGE!

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  15. *dies from the awesomeness that is your nails*

    I love you and your manicures but I now have a new favorite. Everything about this one is spot on...GORGEOUS!!

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  16. This is SOOO gorgeous. So so so pretty. I wanted to try the peacock design on my BM plates for so long, but I don't think my nails are quite long enough to yet. =D Can't wait to try this design soon!! =]

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  17. So beautiful, this is my new favorite konadicure. I can't even put into words how perfect this is! And yes, my wish list grew, now I want this purple! :)

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  18. This is so gorgeous!!! I am not going to lie. I am going to copy this hahaha I am going ot credit you so people will be exposed to the awesomeness of your manis!!

    I cannot stop staring!!!

    -xo,
    alexis
    maddesthatters.blogspot.com

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  19. Everyone has basically said what I was thinking: that this colour is shiny, pretty, lovely, standout, and PURPLE! I love purples! :) Especially nice deep metallic purples like this one. :)
    And the konad added a special touch. Who ever thought that peacocks would make for cool nail art? I notice that you really love taking photos of manis with gardens, flowers etc. Where is the location where you take these photos?

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  20. I really love your mani and the flowers!!

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  21. WOWWWW!!! That's soooo pretty! I super duper love it! :)

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  22. I love your eye for details, another amazing manicure :)

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  23. Woah that's awesome! Very nicely done :)
    And what a huge flower!

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  24. Waouuuuuuuu i love, is very, very cute.
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  25. I sure would have liked to see you and the peacock eyeing one another how funny. lol!

    Your peacock mani is just lovely :D

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  26. So beautiful! Adding stones to the tail feathers was the perfect touch!

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  27. WOW this is stunning!! The colour, the stamping, the jewels.. amazing combination and so artistic.

    I love it! Pasadena Purple is definitely on my wish list now =)

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  28. As has been said before-WOW!!!
    I love that peacock plate too, but you really rocked it! Fantastic job!

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  29. Very pretty, the jewels are a great accent!

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  30. I ADORE this manicure! Absolutely gorgeous!

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  31. This is stunning! I love how you added the jewels to the peacock's feathers. Gorgeous.
    -Lisa

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  32. I love this...I can't wait for my nails to grow out - I have these plates, but this design is too long - your art is fab!

    :B
    ~Tiffani

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  33. That's so pretty, I love what you did with the peacock's tail.

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  34. this is really a seriously gorgeous mani.. oohh ooooh love the jewels..

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  35. i LOVE peacocks, this is beautifull!

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  36. Lovely nails and what a lovely garden!
    I didn't know Hibiscus could grow that big!

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  37. Hey it's absolutely wondeful, I have had around the same idea with this plate :) But I don't do it yet !!!!
    It's magic, I love & you pics, gorgeous Dear Diana^..

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  38. woooow, this looks awesome!!! Not only is it a to-die-for purple, the peacock feathers with the rhinestones look amazing!!
    (I've tried smaller rhinestones once in a while myself, but I keep losing them or I entangle them in my hair when I push it back or something else, so up until now I feel happier with konading/nail stamping without rhinestones, but they sure are hot!

    I love the story part about you and the peacock, where you fanned your skirt and stood opposite of it and how he seemed to admire your "feathers" :) I can totally imagine that. Cool story!
    And you have really amazing nails, if I may say. Mine always tend to break when the white nailtip grows longer than approximately 4 mm ... :(

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  39. Wow, this is amazing! ^_^ I love this shade of purple! And painting the feathers and adding the rhinestones just made it all the more fabulous! c:

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  40. Wauw its pretty! And I am so amazed about the size of that giant hibiscus :D

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  41. Beautiful design! Just love it! Not to mention the Flowers! Oh be still my heart! Thank you for always sharing such wonderful images. I for one, so appreciate it. Makes my day.

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  42. that's really pretty nail art, I love it! And woah, that is a huge flower! I like the blue flowers too

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  43. Just a lovely manicure. I love the peacock with the pretty gems in the feathers. A stunning manicure. Thank you for sharing your tremendous talents.

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  44. This is sooooooo pretty! Your nail art designs rock!

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  45. WOW, I did the peacock but it sure didn't look like this. You are SO very creative. AWESOME.
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  46. This might actually be my favourite mani that you've done, the jewels just set off the peacock stamp PERFECTLY.

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  47. Wow this is stunning! Definitely one of my favorites of yours.

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  48. Thats so lovely
    You are talented

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  49. LOVE this mani! I have been wondering what to do with the peacock on the BM plate, you certainly did something special! It's gorgeous!

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  50. A little late to this peacock party! I wanted to tell you this is one of my favorite nail looks from you.

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  51. Stunning! I love the way you put together stamping with other decorations. I'm always so inspired by your combos! ☺ Hope you don't mind if I copy this one shamelessly...

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  52. This design is breathtaking!! I love purple anyway but the peacock does so much for it. If I could ever duplicate this I don't think I would wear anything else. Thank you for sharing your creative talent!
    P.J.

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